MEMBERSHIP IN RESEARCH GRANTS

Principle Investigator of UEFISCDI research grant 368/2015, An Intellectual History of the Imagination: Bridging Literature, Philosophy and Science in Early Modern and Enlightenment England (2015-2017)

CNCSIS Research Grant IDEI-PCE (2008) 2067 Science, politics and utopia in the Republic of Letters: early modern models of the production and dissemination of knowledge (Director: Prof. Vlad Alexandrescu), 2009-2011.

CNCSIS Research Grant IDEI-PCE (2008) 1980 The cultural institution of literature from early to late modernity (Director: Prof. Mihaela Irimia), 2009-2011.

General issue of Journal of Early Modern Studies 6.2, Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2017

General issue of Journal of Early Modern Studies 5.2, co-edited with Vlad Alexandrescu, Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2016.

Francis Bacon on Motion and Power, co-edited with Guido Giglioni, James Lancaster and Dana Jalobeanu, Dordrecht: Springer, 2016.
The Care of the Self in Early Modern Philosophy and Science, special issue of Journal of Early Modern Studies 4.2, Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2015.
General issue of Journal of Early Modern Studies 2.2, Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2013.
Special issue of Perspectives on Science 20 (2012) on Francis Bacon and the Medicine of the Mind: Late Renaissance Contexts, co-edited with Guido Giglioni and Dana Jalobeanu.

Special issue of Early Science and Medicine 17 (2012) on Francis Bacon and the Reconfiguration of Early Modern Natural History, co-edited with Guido Giglioni and Dana Jalobeanu.

"The Art of Thinking" (with Koen Vermeir), in David Miller and Dana Jalobeanu (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

"Francis Bacon on the Imagination, Rhetoric and the Art of Direction", in Koen Vermeir (ed.), Knowledge and Imagination in Early Modern Philosophy, Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming.

“Francis Bacon on the Motions of the Mind”, in Sorana Corneanu, Guido Giglioni, and Dana Jalobeanu (eds.), Francis Bacon and the Materiality of the Appetites: Stoicism, Medicine and Politics, Dordrecht: Springer (series “International Archives of the History of Ideas”), forthcoming 2014.

“Francis Bacon on Charity and the Ends of Knowledge”, in Tamas Demeter, Kathryn Murphy, and Claus Zittel (eds.), Conflicting Values of Inquiry: The Ideologies of Epistemology in Early Modern Europe, Leiden: Brill (series “Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture”), forthcoming 2013.

“Locke on the Study of Nature” in Vlad Alexandrescu (ed.), Branching Off: The Early Moderns in Quest for the Unity of Knowledge, Bucharest: Zeta Books (series “Foundations of Modern Thought”, 2009, 187-207.

“To ‘Clear the Mind of All Perturbation’: The Discipline of Judgment in the Seventeenth Century”, in Irina Vainovschi (ed.), New Europe College Yearbook 2006-2007, Bucharest: New Europe College, 2009, 57-94.

“‘A Mind at once so enlighten’d, and so ridiculous’: Eighteenth-century Quixotes” (review of Dragos Ivana, Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Realism: Quixotism in English Novels, 1742-1801, Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2014), The European English Messenger 24.2 (2015): 95-97.
Review of Rhodri Lewis (ed.), William Petty and the Order of Nature: An Unpublished Manuscript Essay (Tempe, AR: ACMRS, 2012), Renaissance Quarterly 67.2 (2014): 642-643.

“Mathematics and the Cultivation of the Self” (review of Matthew L. Jones, The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution. Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), Metascience 16 (2007): 509-513.

“The Lunatic, the Scientist and the Poet: Invention and Imagination in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Scottish Writings on Genius”, paper, “Ordering Knowledge: From Bacon to the Shelleys” Conference (keynote), Strasbourg, 16 March 2018.

“Dogmatism and Imagination: The Making of an Early Modern Epistemic Vice”, paper, “Epistemic Vices: Continuities and Discontinuities, 1600-2000” Conference (keynote), Leiden, 25 January 2018.

2014

“Historiae of the Soul: Physiology and Rhetoric in Early Modern Medicine of the Mind”, 6th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Lisbon, Portugal, 4 September 2014.

“Things not in our power, and what to do about them; or, an inquiry into why there is so much body in the late Renaissance medicine of the mind”, paper, “Early Modern Medicine of the Mind” Colloquium, The Warburg Institute, London, 30-31 May 2014.

“Seeing the things themselves: Francis Bacon on parables, experiments, and the transferring power of the imagination”, paper, “Literature, Ideas and Society” Seminar Series, The Warburg Institute, London, 28 May 2014.

“Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Negotiating the New and the Old Worlds in the Early Modern Period (Case Study: Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis)”, seminar, IP Programme “Frontiers and Cultures”, Venice, Italy, 29-30 March 2012.

TEACHING

BA Level

British literature in intellectual context, 16th to 18th centuries, (lectures and seminars), for 1st year students, University of Bucharest – core course

"Science and Literature: The Early Modern Imagination," elective for 3rd year students, English Department, University of Bucharest (2018-)

“Early Modern Intellectual History: The Imagination before the Romantics”, elective for 3rd year students, English Department, University of Bucharest (2012-)

“Emotions and the Good Life across Genres and Ages”, elective for 3rd year students, English Department, University of Bucharest (2008-2011)

“Getting the Mind Right: A History of the Passions in Early Modern England”, elective for 3rd- and 4th-year students, English Department, University of Bucharest (2007-2008)

“A Cultural History of Reading”, elective for 3rd- and 4th-year students, English Department, University of Bucharest (2006-2007)

MA Level

“Shaping the Republic of Letters: Crisis and Reformation in Early Modern Europe”, module for the MA programme in British Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest (2006-)

“Perspectives on Modernity: Intellectual and Cultural History”, module for the MA programme in British Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest (2008-)

ACADEMIC EVENT ORGANISATION

The Bucharest-Princeton International Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (co-organised with D. Garber, D. Jalobeanu, V. Alexandrescu), yearly since 2009.

“The Janus Face of the Early Modern Imagination”, workshop from the Intellectual History of the Early Modern Imagination research project, UEFISCDI grant no. 368/2015, ICUB, Bucharest, 9-10 September 2016.

“Early Modern Medicine of the Mind”, workshop associated with the ERC Grant MOM, The Warburg institute, London (co-organised with G. Giglioni and C.T. Wolfe), 30-31 May 2014.

The Bucharest-Princeton International Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (co-organised with D. Garber, D. Jalobeanu, V. Alexandrescu, M. Dobre), 2005-2013.

11th International Society for Intellectual History Conference “Passionate Minds: Knowledge and the Emotions in Intellectual History”, BCU, Bucharest (co-organised with Dana Jalobeanu), 26-28 May 2011.

REVIEWER FOR

University of Chicago Press
Springer
Brill
Editura Universitatii din BucurestiJournal of the History of IdeasBritish Journal for the History of PhilosophyRenaissance QuarterlyParergonCerae: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern StudiesAmerican Political Science ReviewJournal of Evolution and TechnologyStudies in the History and Philosophy of ScienceSociety and Politics